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News and Media RSS FeedsHeavy fighting in South Ossetia - Heavy fighting resumes between Georgian forces and South Ossetian separatists despite a truce agreement....Feed Source: news.bbc.co.uk Bin Laden driver given 66 months - Osama Bin Laden's ex-driver is sentenced to five-and-a-half years in prison at the first US military trial in Guantanamo Bay.... World leaders gather for Olympics - Leaders from around the world arrive in the Chinese capital, ahead of the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics.... Honduran killer executed in Texas - A Honduran man, convicted of a 2001 murder, is executed in the US after the Supreme Court rejects his appeal.... Musharraf faces impeachment bid - Pakistan's ruling coalition parties say they will begin impeachment proceedings against President Pervez Musharraf.... US mayor jailed for bail breach - Mayor of Detroit, Kwame Kilpatrick, is jailed for visiting Canada in a violation of the terms of his bail in a perjury case.... Top Italian car designer killed - Andrea Pininfarina, head of the Italian car designer of Ferraris and Fiats, is killed in a road accident in Turin.... Cern lab set for beam milestone - A vast physics experiment - the Large Hadron Collider - is to reach a key milestone ahead of an official start-up on 10 September.... Freeman discharged from hospital - Hollywood actor Morgan Freeman is discharged from a Tennessee hospital where he recovered after a car crash.... NZ police bring in Harry Potter star to solve burglary case - A wanted poster featuring Harry Potter star is used by New Zealand police to try to catch burglar.... Olympic dream - Why the Games are so important to the Chinese people
... Under pressure - Musharraf's options after impeachment decision... It's quiz time! - Paris for president? Surely she's not serious ... 'Anthrax killer' - How strong is the case against Dr Bruce Ivins?... Peace move - Why Iraqi cleric wants his fighters to drop their guns... 'Order from God' - The Nigerian man who has 86 wives and 170 children... Coup demonstrations in Mauritania - Mauritanians demonstrate for and against a military coup that toppled the country's democratically elected president.... Anthrax victim's widow speaks out - A US widow demands to know why a "certifiable" scientist now suspected of anthrax attacks was not removed from his post.... Burma comic charged over aid - One of Burma's top comedians is charged with several offences, after he defied the military to give aid to cyclone victims. ... Italy arrest over German Mafia killing - Police in Italy arrest a senior member of a family allegedly linked to Mafia killings in the German city of Duisburg last year.... Syrian dissident economist freed - Syrian dissident economist Aref Dalila is freed by the authorities after serving nearly seven years in jail.... Deadly clash in tribal Pakistan - At least five Pakistani troops and about 25 pro-Taleban militants die in clashes along the Afghan border, say officials.... Illegal checks jeopardising jobs - Employers in England and Wales are making illegal requests for background checks on their workers, the BBC learns.... Eurozone rates on hold at 4.25% - The European Central Bank maintains eurozone interest rates at 4.25% after its latest meeting.... Hope for end to rejection drugs - Scientists develop procedure which may help transplant patients avoid the need to take anti-rejection drugs.... Robot plane sweeps over UK fields - The first flights have been conducted of an autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to monitor UK farmland.... Ledger inquiry 'is to be dropped' - Investigators are to drop a criminal case into how Heath Ledger obtained two painkillers that contributed to his death.... BT injects life into its network - Ideas from researchers creating artificial life are helping to keep BT's network running.... Your say - What do you want the world to talk about?... Pakistan Ruling Parties Agree to Impeach Musharraf - ISLAMABAD, Aug. 7---Pakistan's ruling coalition parties agreed Thursday to impeach President Pervez Musharraf, setting up a major showdown between the former military chief and the newly elected civilian government.
... Early Lessons Forgotten, AIDS Conference Told - MEXICO CITY, Aug. 6 -- Twenty-five years after AIDS was branded the "gay plague," the virus is again exacting a disproportionate toll on men who have sex with men, not only in the United States but also in countries where the epidemic is just emerging.
... In Thailand, First Lady Meets With Burmese Refugees - MAE SOT, Thailand, Aug 7 -- With a steady downpour outside, first lady Laura Bush sat down inside a small hut near the Thai border with Burma and invited a group of refugees from one of the world's most repressive regimes to tell her what they "would like the people of the world to know" about th
... Hamdan Guilty of Terror Support - GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba, Aug. 6 -- A military jury on Wednesday found a former driver for Osama bin Laden guilty of supporting terrorism but not of conspiring in terrorist attacks, handing the Bush administration a partial victory in the first U.S. war crimes trial in a half a century.
... Russia Asks That Iran Be Given More Time - UNITED NATIONS, Aug. 6 -- Russia said Wednesday that Iran should be granted more time to respond to a package of incentives that the United States and five other powerful nations have offered Tehran to freeze its uranium enrichment efforts, a stance that may slow U.S. and European efforts to impose
... Elected Leaders Ousted in Mauritania - NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania, Aug. 7 -- Army commanders ousted Mauritania's first freely elected president in two decades Wednesday after a bitter political fight over his overtures to Islamist radicals and ties to allies of a reviled former dictator.
... Hong Kong Bars Chinese Dissident - A prominent exiled Chinese activist, Yang Jianli, was barred from entering Hong Kong after he arrived from Japan yesterday, according to his wife and American contacts he reached later by cellphone. Yang, a U.S. permanent resident, had planned to take part in a two-day walk in Hong Kong in support
... U.S. in 'Firm Opposition' to Chinese Human Rights Policies, Bush Says - BANGKOK, Aug. 7 -- President Bush on Thursday used some of his bluntest language to date on human rights in China, saying in a speech here before he flew to Beijing for the Olympic Games' opening ceremony that "America stands in firm opposition" to China's detention of political dissidents and re
... Documents List Essential Clues - The key clues that led the FBI to Army scientist Bruce E. Ivins ranged from the infinitesimally small -- tiny bits of genetic coding on a single anthrax spore -- to items as ordinary as a time stamp on a building security pass.
... Some Find Relief, but Skepticism Remains - For years, Ernesto Blanco has been haunted by questions about who carried out the 2001 anthrax attacks, which left him hospitalized for 27 days. Yesterday, the Florida resident felt he finally got some answers.
... Co-Workers Praise Ivins as Top Researcher, Mentor to Young Scientists - Bruce E. Ivins was the type of colleague who would leave a package of M&Ms on the desk of his frazzled boss. He was a "Survivor" junkie who loved deconstructing the latest episode at work. He was known for his groundbreaking development of new-generation vaccines for anthrax but he also kept a
... In Cleanup Effort, Beijing Moved Factories to Clog Air Elsewhere - TANGSHAN, China -- Seven years ago, when Beijing won the privilege of hosting the 2008 Olympic Games, the Chinese capital promised to fix its environmental problems. Among the toughest measures it took was to eliminate hundreds of highly polluting factories.
... Gold and Leaden - BEIJING An Adidas advertising campaign in China, this May, showed a man named Hu Jia, dressed in a red swimsuit, standing on a platform made of twisting hands and arms emerging from an endless sea of people, sketched in gray. This is the Olympic diver Hu Jia, not the civil rights activist and pol
... Foreign Activists Manage to Pierce China's Broad Security Apparatus - BEIJING, Aug. 6 -- China's intense efforts to block any protest that would mar the Olympic Games were challenged Wednesday by foreign activists equally bent on diverting attention to issues as varied as Tibetan independence, the crisis in Darfur and religious freedom.
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